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Dave Versace

@daveversace.bsky.social
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Some guy from Canberra. Writes a bit. Games a bit. Tries not to become infuriated with the state of the world or go outside. Likes dogs. Trans rights are human rights. Science doesn't care about your beliefs. ACAB. AWAWB.

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 13h
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/10/2026
Children overboard was not simply a “miscommunication”. A Senate inquiry found Peter Reith deceived Australians and Cabinet blocked key staff from giving evidence, Marianne Van Galen Dickie and Andrew Bartlett write. #auspol #Refugees Parliament of Australia
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
"LLMs are just computers doing Algebra for fascists" is a completely correct take and the only examples anyone provides for why agentic AI is good are basically "it allows me to fuck off at work".
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The important question is not which faction supplies the next PM. It is what substantially different Australia any of the factions proposes to create. ...the problems confronting government are becoming larger as its political imagination becomes smaller." pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/10...
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Labor’s Left has won the party. So what happened to the Left?
Labor’s Left has the prime minister, the numbers and formidable control of the party machinery. What it lacks is a program for changing Australia. After decades spent accumulating power, the bigger qu...
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Ben Robbins is launching M2 @lamemage.com · 30/09/2026
In one week I click the button and let slip the dogs of fractal history… Tuesday October 6 www.kickstarter.com/projects/lam...
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Coming soon: Microscope (2nd Edition)
The fractal game of epic histories
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
Slow Roads is a game for drivers, not racers: aftermath.site/slow-roads-imp...
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trif @trif26.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Luke Plunkett nails it. So glad I subscribe to aftermath.site You should too.
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Aftermath
Video games, the internet and what comes after
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Blackniss Everdeen @the-green-queen.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jess 💖 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Din't think the better team won on the day, but then again that's not really how this works #aflgf
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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The thing about trying to appeal to right wing bigots is that right wing bigots are all stupid idiots who get 100% of their news from propagandists so they will never actually find out that you were trying to appeal to them in the first place
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Alasdair Stuart @alasdairstuart.com · 24/09/2026
This week has seen a sweaty little fascist livestream knifing a dinghy with an RNLI volunteer still in it because FOREIGN PEOPLE and a lot of the media being very scared to call a sweaty little fascist a sweaty little fascist. So seeing Captain Art Crimes step the fuck up is an absolute joy:)
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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Astro City on Humble Bundle, plus other Buisek-penned books. All 17 volumes of Astro City, which is some berserk value. If you have never had the pleasure, now's your chance.
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Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics
Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!
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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy. Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.
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AI Took Something From Doctors and Nobody Noticed. The Lancet Caught It. Here Is the Story
A landmark study in The Lancet measured what happens to a physician’s diagnostic instincts when the algorithm is switched off. The findings…
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The worst thing we've done is made fame a middle class job, instead of the toxic runoff of actual accomplishment.
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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Batman Day isn't fun for everybody. Please check on your superstitious and cowardly loved ones today.
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Liberal Part grappling: "We know it will be a disaster but we're completely out of ideas."
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ed Sheeran losing openers like a 1990s England cricket team
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Adam Lance Garcia @adamlancegarcia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@kurtbusiek.bsky.social's Masterpiece, ASTRO CITY, is available on Humble Bundle. This has my *HIGHEST* recommendation. A life-changing series. www.humblebundle.com/books/kurt-b...
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Humble Comic Bundle: Kurt Busiek's Astro City: The 30th Anniversary by Image Comics
Explore the works of multi‑Eisner and Harvey Award winner Kurt Busiek with the Astero City Bundle by Image Comics!
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The dumbest asshole in the country and the President need to be two different people moving forward
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is nightmare fuel. Australia as a country has a lot to be ashamed of, but this may well be near the top of the list
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Can someone explain why – in an economy in which the central bank has decided we need almost 700,000 people to be unemployed – those people live in such dreadful poverty that it can make you up to 10 times more likely to die in the prime of your life?" www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Dystopian Arthur Wyatt @arthurwyatt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Oh hey want to be intensely angry about some shit for the rest of your life? youtu.be/8BIcAZxFfrc?...
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Vaccines and Autism: A Measured Response
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Everyone should read El's book about the demented Silicon Valley tech mythos. Then read it again because on the first pass you won't quite accept it as the thought processes of real people who have a regrettably outsized influence on your survival prospects.
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Elizabeth Sandifer @eruditorumpress.com · 15/09/2026
The problem is that "while you weren't looking the tech industry was comprehensively taken over by a cult based around a piece of Harry Potter fanfic" is self-evidently an absolutely ridiculous claim that can't possibly have happened, which is a real problem given that it 100% did happen.
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Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A thing about ‘cancelling’ is that honestly I don’t have room for more than three or four bits of knowledge about a lot of famous people and if one of them is “has shitty opinions on something I care a lot about” that’s going to become very salient
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Evil Hat @evilhat.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
IN STORES TODAY! Blades '68 shines a bright, electroplasmic light on the grimy streets of Doskvol and spins the timeline forward 100 years. Enter a technicolor world of bold action, shadow conspiracies, and supernatural twists. Pick it up at your FLGS or directly from us: evilhat.com/product/blad...
In the background, a roadmap of Doskvol 968. The city is rendered in pastel pink, blue, and gray. Atop the map is a copy of Blades '68.  Colorful characters inspired by the 1960s are illustrated in bright shades of blue, orange, and yellow.
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Tea Vampire @stras.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When you write a game you never know who will play it or what it will mean to them. It can be someone's first game. It can be someone's last game. And if you're very very lucky, you'll sometimes get to hear about it.
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Screenshot from the article in the quoted post, saying "Piff and his colleagues found that upper-class drivers were more likely to cut other cars off at junctions and ignore pedestrians at crossings. Wealthier people also appeared more willing to lie at work. In one experiment, volunteers were left alone with a jar of sweets ostensibly meant for children. When the researchers returned, upper-class people had snaffled nearly twice as many candies as lower-class people.

“The general pattern seems to be that with wealth and rising power, you become less engaged with the needs of others and less burdened by the needs of social relationships,” Piff said. “Taking candy from children might be the least of our worries but it’s emblematic of the tendency to prioritise one’s own needs over those of others.”
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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just FYI, I will be blocking anyone who mentions watching that stupid fucking wizard show. If you're going to directly enrich a fascist who uses her wealth to persecute trans people, have the decency to be ashamed and keep it to yourself.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
AUSSIES...
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’m going to double down here. Any media which paints the Greens as either crazy or hysterical but covers Pauline Hanson as a credible political option should be exiled into political purgatory and is not worthy of anyone’s time. #auspol
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026
The way you feel when you look at these very real historical advertisements for asbestos is how you should feel when you see fossil fuel advertising of any kind www.completeasbestossurveys.co.uk/vintage-asbe...
1954 Kent cigarette advertisement promoting Micronite filters that contained crocidolite asbestos, showing hands holding a pack and claiming the filter gives greater protection—historical example of harmful advertising that exposed smokers to toxic fibers.Vintage advertisement promoting asbestos as fireproofing for New York’s World Trade Centre, showing the Twin Towers and the headline "WHEN THE FIRE ALARM WENT OFF, IT TOOK TWO HOURS TO EVACUATE NEW YORK'S WORLD TRADE CENTRE," claiming asbestos made the building safer while ignoring health risks.Advertisement promoting Bell's Asbestos fire suits for the Royal Air Force, showing illustrated men in different protective suits labeled "for the pilot" and "for the ground staff" with a headline claiming asbestos makes the suits safer.Vintage advertisement promoting "The Star" asbestos pads to protect dining tables, showing a woman placing a pad on a round table, accompanied by text noting asbestos is now known to be a serious health hazard.
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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm a millennial (although one of the oldest ones), and I've just started getting targeted things telling me that to prevent my elderly heart from immediately packing in, I should eat more avocados. WELL WELL WELL.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 01/09/2026
It's time to let the people decide. ✍️ Add your name to the call for a plebiscite on a 25% gas export tax! gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au
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A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax
Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.
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Edward Harrison @edwardnh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”...
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File 770 @file770.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Aussiecon5 Announces Guests of Honor file770.com/aussiecon5-a...
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Aussiecon5 Announces Guests of Honor
Aussiecon5, as the Worldcon will be called, will be held in Brisbane, Australia from July 27-31, 2028. The bid was officially seated today when the site selection voting results were reported to th…
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Dave Versace @daveversace.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My family were visiting Cairns the night that Dire Straits played on Townsville in 1985, and we went home to Townsville the day they played in Cairns. I continue to be devastated 40 years later.
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An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There are only two stories that won a Hugo whose screen adaptation also won a Hugo. “All Systems Red” is the second one. The other is “Dune” Congratulations @marthawells.com.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
this is gonna upset so many of y’all
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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our Guests of Honour at #AussieCon5....
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